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LONDON, November 7th, 1808. 

from this Publication the Headers may dis~ 
cern what is hastening upon the Land, 
as they are daily provoking the Lord to 
Anger, by false Doctrine, as well as the 
crying Sins of the Nation. 

nPTVVO books were lately brought to me, which 
J[ made me shudder to read : The one, deny- 
ing the Divinity of CHRIST; and the other, 
from the doctrine in it, must deny the prophets ; 
as he denies every condition held out by them, 
and makes the Lord the author of every evil. 
Now, if the Gospel is denied, and the Prophets 
are denied, what have we to expect and look for, 
but a fearful judgment hastening on. 

For the good of the public I shall point out 
their errors, that the wise may discern that such 
doctrine as thes.„ books contain hardeneth nieri 
in sin, by denying the promises of the LORD, 
held out by the prophets to returning sinners on 
the one hand, and the truth of the Gospel they 
are denying on the other. 

One I allude to is the doctrine of the Unitarians, 
as is set forth in the review of religious Publica- 
tions in the Evangelical Magazine for September, 
1808. 

1 The New Testament, in an improved Version, 
upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome's new 

B 



W. Marchant, Printer, 3, GrevLHe- Street, Holbom, 
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Translation ; with a corrected Text, and Notes 
Critical and Explanatory. 
' The introduction to this -version gives its 
history, in narrating the means and method pur- 
sued to its completion, by the ministers in that 
connection, to whom it was committed. The 
work includes all the books in one common ver- 
sion ; but divided into two classes, the genuine 
and the doubtful ; the latter including the Epistle 
to the Hebrews — James — 2d of Peter — 2d and 
3d of John — Jude, and the Book of Revelation ; 
which are to be considered as the Apocrypha of 
the New Testament ; and may be publicly read 
in Christian assemblies, for the edification of the 
people ; but not be alleged as affording alone 
sufficient proof of any doctrine. Nor is this all : 
— even in the books admitted as canonical, several 
chapters, and parts of chapters, are printed in 
Italic, as, at best, extremely doubtful. Of this 
class we have noticed Matt. i. 17, to the end of 
chap. ii. — Luke i. 5, to the end of chap. ii. — 
John viii. 1 — 12; beside many verses or parts 
of verses. — We submit it, therefore, to the better 
judgment of the society, whether, in the next 
edition, the apocryphal books and passages might 
not better be wholly omitted, as it would save 
great part of the expense of the printing, and 
much improve the portability of the book I ! /' 
For the readers who may not have seen the 
Magazine, I have inserted the parts that mention 
the chapters that are to be left out of this New 
Testament. This society was instituted in 1791, 
for the express purpose of opposing the doctrines 
usually denominated orthodox, and generally 
called The Unitarian Society. 

Here we see, from this sect of people, how they 
are fulfilling the words of the Apostles, and wish 
to put the truth from them, and the day-light 
from others,, that they may not see the truth 



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before them. And they are fulfilling the words 
of Peter — " false teachers among you, who shall 
bring in damnable heresies, even denying the 
Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves 
swift destruction. And many shall follow their 
pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of 
truth shall be evil spoken of." Now these people, 
to stifle their conscience, that the word of truth 
may not appear as a swift witness against them, 
are trying to put it out of their sight : and 
that the way of truth may be evil spoken of, they 
are endeavouring to put away the very chapters 
that make the Gospel plain to men,- — that Jesus 
Christ was verily the SON of GOD, as is so 
clearly proved in these chapters they wish to put 
out of the New Testament. But to make their 
doubts clear they must likewise put out many of 
the Psalms, and the 53d chap, of Isaiah, with 
many others of the prophets, which agree with 
the Gospel, as in a chain, joined together. But 
such men as these, Peter said, would be in the last 
days, and St. Jude describes them — " Clouds with- 
out water, carried about of winds ; trees, whose 
frjuit wi there th; without fruit, twice dead, 
plucked up by the roots." And twice dead must 
they appear ; first dead as to the knowledge of 
the prophets, and the meaning of their words ; 
secondly, dead as to the knowledge of the 
Gospel, or any knowledge of him who loved 
us, and gave himself for us. These are the 
heresies that one sect of people are trying to 
establish in this land; denying the Gospel and 
the Prophets, worse than the Jews, for they are 
waiting for the Messiah, whom they believe to be 
the Son of Gocl, to come in Majesty and great 
Glory, to bring in their Ptedemption. But these 
men are allowing of one part of the Gospel, of our 
Saviour's being a Prophet, but are putting out 
the very things that prove him the Messiah 



spoken of by the Prophets ; so, with their doubt* 
ful wisdom, they are endeavouring to blind the 
eyes and darken the understanding of all those 
that will be led by them, or listen to them. Now, 
as these heresies are so fast increasing, as of late 
years they have been, of various kinds; some 
through Atheism, and some through Deism, to 
put the whole Bible out of fdoors, sin hath 
been increasing with a high ihand, and every 
evil and cruelty; abounds in man, conscience seems 
seared as with a hot iron. While they are willing to 
embrace such doctrine, that there is no God to 
punish the wicked, or to reward the just, we 
must expect that sin will abound : but they will 
find it bringeth sorrow in the end ; and the threat- 
ened judgments that are, hastening on, they will 
find to come upon them. Therefore, let no man 
marvel at the visitation of the Lord, to warn 
of what was coming upon the earth, and to 
threaten this nation with punishment for ; their 
crimes. The teachers qivthe 'people have been 
threatened, as bringing cV§\yn judgments on their 
hearers, for the wrong doctrine they are teaching 
them. — Blind leaders of the ■ blind ; not discern- 
ing the ditch that is before them. But as men 
are endeavouring to put out of the Bible the 
very prophecies that tell them their sins, I do not 
marvel they should endeavour to put away the 
prophecies that tell them what is hastening upon 
them, and the reasons why this Nation groans 
under afflictions. But they will find putting 
away the prophecies will not put away the truth 
of their fulfilment. From the books of the 
Atheists, as well as the Arians and Deists, who 
deny the Lord's interference with man ; I was 
answered : The Lord would go on till men should 
know there is a God that interferes with his 
creatures, and whose eye is every where present, 
beholding the evil and the good. And from the 



state that people are now come to, some denying 
the Gospel, and others, the Bible $ I see there 
is cause enough for the LORD'S Visitation, 
that they may see in the end, there is a God 
that seeth all things. And for the crimes of this 
nation, sorrows will increase. But now let the 
readers observe, this society, that are endeavour- 
ing to put away the prophecies of the apostles ; 
and what was prophecied at pay Saviour's birth, 
began in 1791. Then, let them discern the vi- 
sitation of the Lord, to prove the truth of the 
gospel, and the prophets ; that the time was 
drawing near, for the Lord is coming in Might, 
Majesty, and Glory, to fulfil them. This follow- 
ed in 1792, and the truth of the prophecies have 
followed since, in the surrounding nations, to this 
day. So that the Lord is going on to fulfil the 
very prophecies they want to put out of the New 
Testament, because the Revelations are now going 
on to be fulfilled. And in like manner they will 
find the prophecies given to me at Bristol, in 1804, 
are now hastening on to be fulfilled. The readers 
may expect to see in this book a new prophecy of 
what is coming on, but that could be no pro- 
phecy to be given at a time they are fulfilling; 
as it would appear prophecying from judgment, 
according to the wisdom of man. But the pro- 
phecies given to me are not after the wisdom of 
inen, but at a time men by wisdom could not dis- 
cern an} 7 likeness to appear before them. And 
the prophecies that are now hastening on to be 
fulfilled abroad, and at home, were given to me 
in 1804 ; and the parables are also now hastening 
on to be fulfilled. Some that do not discern their 
Bibles how the Lord compared an adulterous na- 
tion, to an adulteress woman, may stumble at 
some of the parables; but if men discern in what 
manner they are adulterating the Word of God, 
and what are the crimes of this nation ; and how 



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greatly all the warnings hath been mocked and 
despised, then, they will see the parables clear. 

And now I give them warning they are hastening 
on, and this, I was warned of in September last, 
when the boasting of the nation was great, that 
they should conquer. I was then warned that as 
the letter sent to the clergy went on according to 
the dates that were mentioned, and the change 
took place for the nation, that the sign of victory 
began to appear in the date mentioned in the let- 
ter ; so, now, they would find the last sign men- 
tioned in that letter, the gathering clouds would 
hasten on ; and the other signs and parables, that 
were afterwards published : to make it sign upon 
sign, and warning upon warning, they would now 
find js hastening on. These things the Lord will 
now go on to fulfil, that men may know there is 
a God, who spoke by tbe mouth of his prophets 
and apostles. And the prophecies that were 
given to me are all hastening on noxv to be ful- 
filled. The readers must discern in 17.92, when 
I was warned of what was coming upon the whole 
earth, of the visitation of the Lord, from nation 
to nation ; there was no likeness then appeared. 
Again, in 1802, when peace was proclaimed; I 
then pointed out, from my books, ther dreadful 
war that was hastening on, at a time the war was 
then over, and the judgment of men were, we 
should have a peace for a long continuance ; and 
so at a time since, when this nation was boasting, 
I was warned what was said" in the books printed 
In 1804, was now hastening on to be fulfilled. 
And the sorrows of this nation will not cease, be- 
fore men begin to turn unto the Lord, and own 
the prophets and gospel true, that what our 
Saviour said in the days of the flesh, he would 
fulfil in the end And now the Lord hath warned 
us, that the time is at hand. And this WARNING 



I give to the NATION. And they will find the 
event of Spain will be as foretold in my fifth book 
(called) Strange Effects of Faith, page 237, print- 
ed in Dec. 1.801. This, I tell them, will be 
the end to Spain before the whole is finished. 
Now let the serious readers consider from the cry- 
ing sins we hear of in this nation, and the abomi- 
nable books that are published, the artful ways 
men are contriving to make the Scriptures null and 
void, and the word of God of no effect ; let us 
judge for ourselves, how we can expect a happy 
deliverance out of evil, before evil is done away, 
that the minds of the people begin to change, 
and discern, they have been provoking the Lord 
to anger against them. How do we see oppres- 
sion and cruelty now abound in the hearts of 
men, to oppress one the other ; while the Lord is 
forgotten by them. Others, trying to wrest the 
Scriptures in such a manner, as to make the whol§ 
to be forgotten. And this was foretold would 
be, that sin and sorrow would abound, and 
the wrong teaching of men was condemned. 

And now I shall come to the other book I alluded 
td, a sermon preached and published, August 
11, 1808, byW. M.Smith, 

Wherein he trieth to confirm his doctrine of 
election and reprobation, leaving out all the pro* 
mises of the Lord, spoken by the mouth of the 
prophets. 

He saith, in the 3d page of his book, "So that 
free-will and human power, nor man's reason, 
falsely so called, has any hand in salvation;" — 
for " it is not of him that willeth, nor him that 
runneth, but God that sheweth mercy:" — for 
he saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I 
will have mercy, and I will have compassion on 
whom I will have compassion;" — for the Scrip- 
ture saith unto Pharaoh, "even for this same 



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purpose have I raised thee up, that I rhight shew 
my power in thee, and that my name might he 
declared throughout the earth. Therefore hath 
he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom 
he will, he hardeneth." 

Now these texts of Scripture he hath brought 
forward in a manner to blind the eyes of his hear- 
ers, and sink many in despair; thinking they are 
reprobated if they are not elected : all conditions 
and promises of mercy to returning sinners are 
left out by him, he hath brought forward the 
words of Moses, saying the Lord will have mercy 
on whom he will have mercv, "and I will have 
compassion on whom I will have compassion, 5 ' 
without shewing that the offers of mercy, 
held out to the Jews were all on condi- 
tions. If they obeyed the commands of the 
Lord, every blessing was promised them. And 
so the Lord would have mercy on them, if they 
obeyed him. But the threatenings were pro- 
nounced if they disobeyed ; this, we may find in 
the 28th chap. Deuteronomy on what conditions 
these promises and threatenings stood. The same 
we may find in the 30th chap, all stand on con- 
ditions; that if they sinned against the Lord, 
they would bring on the threatened judgments, 
pronounced against them. But then, if they re- 
pented and turned to the Lord their God, and 
obeyed his voice, according to the command- 
ments that were given them ; then (Moses said) 
the Lord their God would turn unto them, and 
have compassion upon them. In this manner, 
the Lord spoke by Moses, that he would have 
mercy on them that turned unto him, and he 
would have compassion upon them even after they 
had provoked him to anger, if they repented, and 
turned unto the Lord. On these conditions stand 
the books of Moses. And he said " I call heaven 
and earth to record this day against you, that I 






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set before you life, and death; blessing, and 
cursing ; therefore, choose life, that both thou and 
thy seed may live/' 

Here, Moses told them what they should 
choose, if they expected the blessings and pro- 
mises the Lord had made them. In this manner 
stand the books of Moses on conditions, whether 
the people obeyed the Lord to receive the blessing; 
but, if they forsook him, the threatened judgments 
were pronounced against them, and in the like 
manner the Lord spoke by the mouth of all his 
prophets ; his willingness to save to the utmost 
all them that repented and turned unto him. 
Let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the 
unrighteous man his thoughts, and turn unto the 
Lord, and he will have mercy upon him ; and to 
the Most High God, and he will abundantly 
pardon him. But these conditions are left out 
by Smith, who placed all evil as fixed by the Lord, 
because of Moses saying, -the Lord hardened 
Pharaoh's heart. Here men take Scriptures with- 
out discerning tl^e meaning of them, or under- 
standing why they were thus spoken. Pharaoh 
in the beginning was a man hardened in sin, 
cruelty, and murder ; to put to death the children 
of Israel ; which may be seen in the 1st chap, of 
Exodus. And when the Lord sent Moses to 
Pharaoh, to deliver them out of his hands; 
Pharaoh said, who is the Lord that I shall serve 
him ? Here was the pride of his heart, to 
speak with contempt against the Lord. Then w r e 
have nothing to marvel, that the Lord seeing the 
pride of his heart, and knowing he would not 
repent, and his heart was hardened against God ; 
that the Lord should harden on his heart, to 
pursue the children of Israel ; that the Lord might 
shew his wonderous power, in the manner of his 
destruction, that the living might lay it to heart, 
and see the power of the Lord, whom Pharaoh 

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had treated with scorn and contempt. This was 
done m mercy to mankind, that others might take 
warning thereby ; seeing, if the heart is hardened 
against God, to speak with contempt against all 
his words, the Lord will harden them on to their 
own destruction ; which might be seen in others, 
as well as Pharaoh, that also stand on record in 
the Scriptures. But, had they been cutoff by 
death, as soon as their evils appeared, then they 
could not have appeared as marks of judgment 
for the living to lay it to heart. So, what the 
Lord hath done in justice and mercy, to turn 
men from the evil of their ways, is falsely turned, 
by these preachers of election and reprobation, 
to be the fixed decrees of the LORD ! ! that 
they should commit evil ; because, the Lord 
permitted them to go on in the hardness of their 
hearts, till he shewed his judgments, visibly, upon 
them, here upon earth. In the likeness of- 
Pharaoh, we may see thousands going on in this 
land, who know not the Lord ; neither do they 
believe there is a God in power, to punish their 
crimes; therefore, they go on hardened, until 
divine justice overtakes them. And of this sort 
I hear there are a set of men who meet publicly 
to dispute against the existence of a Devil ; such 
men cannot believe there is GOD, who created 
man in the beginning ; in his own image, and his 
own likeness, and pronounced him to be GOOD: 
— for, if there Was no devil to tempt him to evil, 
from whence came evil, sin, and iniquity, to 
abound in man ? Will they answer, all this came 
from God? Then, I ask such what they make of 
their Creator, any more than Pharaoh did; to 
say, " who is the Lord that I shall serve him," if 
they try to prove that all evil came from him ? 
such men must say, as Pharaoh did ; they know 
not God, neither will they believe his words that 
he spoke by the mouth of the prophets, any more 



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than Pharoah believed the words of Moses. For, 
in denying the existence of the devil, from whence 
evil sprung, they must deny his working in the 
serpent, to betray Eve, in the beginning. They 
must deny his coming to condemn Job, when the 
Lord justified him. And who is the rebuke of 
the Lord's people, that is said (in Isaiah xxv,) shall 
be taken away from off all the earth ; when the Lord 
cometh to swallow up death in victory, and wipe 
away tears from off all faces ; to establish his 
kingdom in righteousness and peace? The devil 
is spoken of as our adversary, by the mouth of 
the prophets ; but is more particularly made 
manifest through the Gospel, by our Saviour's 
being tempted by him ; and casting him out of 
the people. So, if men dispute there is no devil, 
they must dispute as Pharaoh did ; that they will 
not believe the prophets, or the Gospel, any more 
than he believed Moses. But, now I warn such 
men that Pharaoh's destruction they have to fear ; 
though it may not come in the same maimer ; 
because the judgments of the Lord hath been in 
various ways, to punish those who mock and 
despise his words. And it is his words that 
stand on record, as a swift witness against such 
men. And now I must be plain to tell them, they 
would never have drawn such judgment, if the 
devil had not got a strong influence over them, to 
harden their hearts, and darken their understand- 
ing; that they may tempt other men to go on in 
sin, thinking they have nothing to fear ; and so 
are willingly led by him. But every serious 
thinking mind, knoweth, by experience, there is 
a devil, who is alwavs ready to tempt them to do 
evil : and nothing but the POWER of GOD, 
trusting in him, will keep us from Satan's power. 
But, if these men go on to persuade other men, 
there is no invisible devil, I now tell them what 
they have to fear; they will find him visible in 



men ; because, by such disputation, they give 
the devil every advantage over them, and are 
bringing destruction upon their own heads: and, 
when it cometh upon them, they must own they 
have been calling down divine vengeance, that 
hath overtaken them. These things, I was shewn 
in the beginning, would bring on judgments in 
this land. The many errors that were amongst 
mankind, from the Arians, and the Calvinists, 
and other false doctrines, I was warned of. But 
now I see they are rising high, making the Lord 
the author of all evil. In the 2d page of Smith's 
book, he says, "That Adam's fall, and every other 
circumstance, came to pass, through him who 
worke.th all things after the council of his own 
will, and according to his good pleasure." 

In this he wickedly charges God wrongfully, 
and denies the Scriptures like the former ; not 
discerning what the Lord spoke by the mouth of 
his prophets. As I live, saith the Lord, I have 
no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but 
rather in them that repent and turn. Turn ye, 
turn ye, why will ye die, O house of Israel ! 
Again, the Lord saith : O that there was such a 
heart in them as I could wish. Isaiah v. The 
Lord saith, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men 
of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and 
my vineyard. What could have been done more 
to my vineyard that I have not done in it? 
Wherefore, when I looked that it should 
bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild 
grapes; when he looked for judgment, but 
behold oppression ; for righteousness, but be- 
hold a cry. In this manner stand the 
Scriptures through, which our Saviour said 
he come not to destroy, but to fulfil. And 
our Saviour said, he come to seek and to save 
that which was lost; and whosoever come unto 
roe, I will in no ways cast them out. So, if we 



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trace the records of the Scripture through, we 
shall find the lov6 of God towards his creatures, 
as a tender father towards his children. If we 
discern from the fall of man we may see the Lord 
did not forsake them in his anger ; but made a 
promise in the beginning, that he would bruise 
the head of the adversary that betrayed. And so 
great did the love of God then appear in Christ 
Jesus, that he would suffer for the transgression 
of man, to destroy the adversary that betrayed 
the woman. Here, the love of God appeared at 
first. And when the world by sin had provo- 
ked the Lord to anger, to bring the delude over 
the world of sinners, he preserved Noah, that was 
a just man. Again; how did the Lord visit his 
people in the land of Egypt ? And how was he 
with them in the wilderness? So, in all ages, wc 
may discern how the Lord rose up one prophet 
after another, promising blessings, and fulfilling 
them, when they obeyed him : but when they 
did evil, then the Lord punished them, that they 
might return from the evil. So we may discern, 
through the Scriptures, the fault was not in the 
Lord to make them commit evil ; because he 
tiled them every way, that they might do well ; 
and this, every just man must see, if he will judge 
aright, between the Lord, and his vineyard ; — ■ 
between God, and his people. No other way can 
he judge aright, if he do not see the mercies of 
the Lord to his creatures, trying every way with 
man, to turn them from the evil of their ways, 
that they might find favour in him ; and have 
peace, and happiness, one with the other. I 
might fill a volume with texts of Scripture, from 
the prophets, and through the Gospel, to prove, 
the mercies and the goodness of the Lord ; and 
his long suffering, and forbearance with them : 
waiting to be gracious, if they would return. 
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and thus they are doing to this present day. But 
av ill men presumptiously speak like Adam in the 
fall, who cast the blame on his Creator, and say, 
they are God's elect ? Then let them discern, it 
was not on Adam's words the promise was made, 
but on Eve% who cast the blame on the ser- 
pent, that the Lord promised to bruise his head. 
There the promise stood in the beginning, and 
here the promise stands in the ending, to be ful- 
filled ; — the enmity against the serpent. But will 
men presumptiously say they are the elect of God, 
who are laying the blame upon the Creator, that 
they may free the root of all evil ? Can such 
men plead that they are the seed, that is at en- 
mity against the devil, when they are trying to 
prove it another way, that evil does not come from 
the devil? Smith says, in his book, "that the 
power of evil is destroyed, Christ having destroy- 
ed death and him that had the power c^ death; 
that is, the devil. When he ascended up c p high, 
he led captivity captive ; and as the mighty con- 
queror has vanquished all the foes of his church." 
Now, if the power of the devil was then de- 
stroyed, as he asserted ;t was for the elect ; how 
came it. to pass that many of these preachers, that 
boast of their election, write their lives, as being 
such very wicked men, whose hearts were har- 
dened in sin and cruelty, if it came not from 
the devil, who had power over them to work in 
them to commit these crimes'? then they of all 
people upon the earth must disgrace the Lord, in 
whom they say they are chosen, if the power of 
the devil was then destroyed ; that he hath no 
power to work in them to do evil. As he says, 
"Faith, being the gift of God, is bestowed on the 
chosen seed, through which, they are brought 
to receive Christ, and live on him, as their all in 
all And, from this precious grace within, gives 
evidence without, by their works/ that from him, 



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(and not from themselves) is their fruit found. 
Now, my inquiry is; how sin come to reign in the 
elect, that were made perfect in Christ; that he 
had conquered all for them? Then it is his fruit, 
and his only, must appear in them. Will this 
man answer, the Lord knew him from the be- 
ginning, and completed righteousness in him ; and 
destroyed the power of the devil, that he had no 
power to tempt him to do evil ? And will he 
prove, from the manner of his life, that he hath 
shewed forth the fruits of righteousness, and fol- 
lowed the footsteps the Lord hath commanded. 
That he is in Christ, and Christ in him, to shew 
forth the fruits of Christ, without sin ; that Sa- 
tan hath had no power over him ? This he mu§t 
prove, to make his doctrine clear, that Sa- 
tan hath had no power over the Lord's people, 
after Christ was crucified ; that he then destroyed 
the power of the devil over them. If Satan's 
power was then destroyed, that he could have no 
more power over the followers of Christ; how 
came it to pass that his disciples were put to 
death, if the devil had no power over men to 
tempt them to do it? And how came the disci- 
ples to complain of temptations within, while they 
suffered persecution without ? This could not be, 
if Satan's power had been then destroyed ; neither 
did the apostles say it was then destroyed. For 
this man hath wrested the Scriptures through. 
The apostle Paul said to the Hebrews, ii. 14. for- 
asmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh 
and blood ; he also himself likewise took part of 
the same, that, through death, he might destroy 
him that had' the power of death; that is, the 
devil might do a thing, is not saying it is done ; 
but, that it will be done. For St. Paul says, the 
mystery of iniquity doth already work, he who 
now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the 
way; then shall the w T icked be revealed, whom 



the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his 
mouth, rind shall destroy with the brightness of 
his coming*. So the apostle did not say the power 
of the devil was destroyed, or would be destroyed, 
before the Lord cometh in POWER and Great 
Glory. 

I should not have entered into arguments to 
contend against a man so blind as Mr. Smith ; 
but I was answered, his books hurt the minds of 
ihany; it filled some with hardnessof heart, to think 
the Lord had created them to do evil ; and then 
to punish them for the evil he designed them to do ; 
and no offers of mercy for them, if they repented ; 
which hardened their hearts not to repent. These 
are the errors on the one hand, which hardened 
men in sin, while, on the other, it sunk many 
in despair ; and filled others with presumption ; 
thinking they were elected, and had nothing to 
fear, do what they would. But though I was 
ordered to bring forward the Scriptures, to shew 
the errors of such doctrine, yet I do by no means 
condemn the innocent. There are some, who do 
not carry the doctrine of election to such a height, 
as he hath done ; there are many good meti 
amongst them, that will not be cast out for the 
wrong judgment they may have drawn, as it is 
placed before me from types and shadows of the 
sealed people; which were shewn me in the begin- 
ning, when I was warned of what was coming 
upon the earth ; and the end of all things being 
at hand. I was then shewn, in a dream, trees 
standing together, whose branches joined one in 
the other, and some fruit was fallen under them; 
and I thought the Lord, said to me; open the 
shells, but thou shalt not taste of the fruit ; it is 
not good. I dreamed I opened the nuts, for they 
were like French nuts; but were withered and 
drv, and a black veil round them. The Lord 



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s&id to me, the first fruits are fallen, they arc 
not good ; look up and thou wilt see berries, and 
Vhen they are ripe they will be good. I looked 
up, and saw berries, like the berries of potatoes* 

Another dream I was shewn in 1796. I dreamt \^/ 
I was in an orchard ; some of the trees were full 
of leaves, without any fruit, and withered ; others, 
with fruit that fell into the mud ; and other trees 
had fruit very thick, and very high, so that no 
pole could reach nor shake down. And other 
dreams were shewn to me in the same likeness, 
and explained, what different fruit there would 
come in, in one likeness, professing to join for 
the coming of Christ, that the evil of sin might 
be done away, and righteousness and peace be 
established on the earth ; and, by professing this 
desire, thev were like the branches that were 
joined together ; but the evil fruit would fall 
where the black veil appeared, and the good fruit 
would remain on the trees to ripen for glory. 
This I was first shewn, in visions, before the 
sealing began, and then I was answered, from the 
Gospel, it was like the net cast into the sea, ga- 
thering in good and bad, and the bad would be 
cast away ; and some would come in like thieves 
and robbers. When I saw the perfect truth ap- 
peared, from a wicked man and woman, at Leeds, 
who artfully came in and deceived the people, 
projessing to believe Christ's kingdom was at 
hand, and longing for evil to be done away, that 
righteousness and peace might be established qjx 
the earth. By this deceit they got a seal. And 
now their crimes have appeared to be like the 
fallen fruit of the blackest dye. I was wounded 
and grieved to the heart, to hear that such 
wretches should have power to deceive the peo- 
ple, by their artful false pretences ; to which I 
was answered, types and shadows of all things 



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must first appear ; and what thou art wounded, 
and grieved to hear, are the very things I shew- 
ed thee before. Know, I have told thee all my 
Bible will be brought forward ; now it is draw-* 
ing near to the end, to shew men in what like- 
ness this present age agrees with the past, and 
with every age since the fall. And know, the 
parables, I said, of the enemy sowing the tares 
amongst the wheat, that both should grow to- 
gether till the harvest ; perfectly so of mens 
taking the bread and wine in remembrance of 
my dying love, to set forth my death till my 
coming to destroy the works of the devil, and 
redeem you from the fall. Thus, discern how the 
wheat and the chaff, the corn and the tares, 
hath been growing together at the table ; they 
have taken- the bread and wine together in one 
likeness; they have met together; and this has 
continued ever since my death, which ye may 
discern from the apostles, how it began in early 
times. And this I shewed thee, in visions, from 
the different fruit, how the wheat and the tares 
would grow together till the end. But I now 
tell thee, the harvest must be come, if no tares 
appeared amongst the wheat ; no thieves and 
robbers appeared amongst the sheep ; if no fish 
came into the net to be cast away ; and none 
came in without a wedding garment ; then the 
end must be come. For this I said in my Gospel 
would continue, before I come to separate the 
wheat from the chaff, and the sheep from the 
goats. But, if they did not appear together, 
then my Gospel could not be fulfilled, to shew 
that the enemy sowed the tares amongst the 
•\vheat. This, I have told thee, will be to the 
end. But now I ask thee, concerning the sealed 
people, how couldst thou simply suppose, in thy 
heart, that Satan would sow no tares amongst 
them, when thou may est discern, from my Gos- 



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pel, how tares hath heen with the wheat* to this 
day, to receive the bread and wine, which they 
have done as thieves and robbers; and, as thieves 
and robbers, many have received the seals. For, 
now I ask thee, what faith, or what belief, dost 
thou suppose this man and woman had got in my 
coming to destroy the works of the devil, and to 
establish my kingdom in righteousness and peace? 
Dost thou vainly suppose they have any belief 
these days are at hand ? Then, I tell thee, they 
must believe they theirselves shall be destroyed, 
being joined with the devil in every wicked work. 
Now here, 1 tell thee of such ; they are the tares 
that the enemy have sown with the wheat; and 
much greater is their condemnation than those 
who fell back through doubts and fears; because, 
the one who fell back through unbelief, not be- 
ing rooted and grounded in faith, they do not 
shew so black a heart to be sown bv the devil as 
the others, that came in full of all manner of 
evil, to deceive mankind. Therefore, I shewed 
thee, by the fruit, the black veil that was round 
them. And now, from the present, look to the 
past, and discern, from all ages, how sin and iniquity 
abounded, while the author of evil remains. See, 
from the children of Israel, after I had shewn 
Signs and wonders in Egypt, and delivered them 
from the hands of Pharaoh, promising them the 
land of Canaan, where I would bless them as a 
people, the deliverance on the one hand, and 
the promise on the other ; yet, discern, they 
were hardened in sin. In like manner thou may- 
est discern through my Bible. But now I tell 
thee of the children of Israel, the sins and rebel- 
lion of those that perished in the wilderness did 
not prevent Joshua and Caleb from possessing the 
promised land ; nor those children who saw the 
errors of their fathers, and forsook their evil ways, 



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were not prevented by their fathers crimes to 
enter into the promised land. Here stand shadow* 
in the beginning; and now come to my Gospel z 
Judas's betraying of me did not prevent my 
faithful disciples of being with me in glory. And 
this I tell thee of my faithful followers, who hath 
taken the bread and wine in remembrance of me, 
as a token of my dying love for them, will not 
be prevented coming to my kingdom, because 
theives and robbers hath joined Math them ; and 
perfectly so I tell thee of the sealed number ; 
though thieves have entered in with the sheep, 
sown by the devil, as tares with the wheat, yet 
they will by no means lessen the happiness of my 
sheep in the end, or destroy m;y wheat, though, 
for a while, they are choaked with the tares* 
And these things I shewed thee before: so let 
not the truth wound thy heart ; for, know, these 
things fulfil the visions I shewed to thee, and my 
Gospel, that I compared with the visions, which 
could not be fulfilled if these impostors did not 
appear- But let not true and faithful believers, 
who are haters of these vices, and are longing for 
all evil to be done away, let them not be cast 
down, because they are mocked through such hy- 
pocrites ; but let them know, it is the fulfilment 
of thy prophecies. And, as I pronounced the 
black veil to be in the hearts of the fallen fruit, 
like the veil I shewed thee round it, which thou 
knowest I told thee was bad, so let them discern 
I shewed thee other fruit that I told thee would 
be good ; and, therefore, good will come out of 
evil, and light Out of darkness. The visions I 
shewed thee of the different fruit that were on the 
trees that were joined together ; from them came 
the fruit, good and bad : and, let them discern/ 
I shewed thee this in the beginning. 

And now the different fruit appears, and great 
i* the likeness between those that believe in elec- 



tion and the seated people. There Arc many who 
judge themselves elected, from a true desire to 
live in me, and to die unto sin, whose hearts arc 
known to me to be at enmity against evil, and 
are desirous to walk in my ways, to live in me, 
and I in them ; such are some of' them that be- 
lieve in election, which I shall not cast out, be- 
cause of the wrong judgment they have drawn 
from my Gospel. And perfectly so, I tell thee, 
of the sealed number : there are many amongst 
the sealed whose hearts and thoughts are known 
to me ; they long to be freed from the evil of 
sin, and from the power of evil, that works 
within, and the evil they see without ; they long 
for my coming, and for me to dwell in them, 
and them in me, that I may free them from all 
the burden of sin, and establish my kingdom in 
righteousness and peace. This is the sincere de- 
sire in the hearts of many of the sealed people ; 
and such will find my protection in the end. 
Here I have shewn thee the perfect likeness in 
the one and the other ; for there are many, who 
boast of their election, will find themselves de- 
ceived in the end, and be like the fallen fruit, as 
I have shewn thee of the others. 

Here I have given the communication, to shew 
in what manner all is explained ; and how it was 
shewn me in the beginning. But the Scriptures, 
that I was ordered to bring forward in this book, 
are, to shew men on what conditions all stood, in 
ages past, to the Jews ; so they stand in this 
present age, for Jews and Gentiles, for the law 
of God, to returning sinners, our Saviour did not 
come to destroy, but to fulfil : and, as the pro- 
phecies that are given to me are rejected, as 
coming from the Loud, I was ordered to bring 
forward the prophecies of the Bible, that they 
may see on what conditions good and evil stands 



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now before them ; so they have the prophecies 
given to me, and what was given to the pro- 
phets of old set before them, that they may judge 
for themselves, what they have to hope and fear. 
But one observation farther I shall make from 
SMITH'S book : he says, ' The first Adam was 
1 the head of the generation of the children of the 

* flesh ; but the second Adam, the Lord Jesus 
- Christ, the head and representative of the electa 
i according to the foreknowledge of God, who 
' put them in Christ, before their natural head 
ijfelii and that eternal union which thcjy had 

* with him, before chaos was formed, never could 
! be severed by Adam's transgression, because 
1 they were chosen in him, complete in him ; he 

* became incarnate for them; they suffered in him, 
t obeyed the law in him, were crucified in him, 

* were buried in him, rose from the grave in him, 

* are glorified in him, and are made to set toge- 
€ ther in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and 
t they all shall be with him in eternal glory !!!!' 

Now, to this I answer, here are truths and er- 
rors blended together, which he has not dis- 
cerned ; error, in saying, the elect number was 
with CHRIST before the world was created : 
for then they must have been saints in glory, to 
be in union with him, like the angels in heaven ; 
then they could not come upon earth on purpose 
to be sinners ; and particularly, as he says, the 
Lord destroyed all the power of the devil, for his 
elect, when Christ died : so, if they were per- 
fect in glory at first, and the power, of evil was 
destroyed for them, then it is Christ's fruit, and 
his only, that must appear in them. Here are 
errors which no man can clear up. But now I 
shall shew where the -truth is. As in Adam all 
died, even so in Christ will all be made alive; 
and, it was the unbounded mercies of God, in the 
beginning, to look with love and pity upon man, 



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whom he had created ; and the woman who was 
betrayed by the subtlety of the serpent. The 
man cast the blame on his Maker, for giving him 
the woman ; but the Lord in mercy made the 
promise of suffering for the transgression of man, 
that justice might demand, to cut off the power 
of the devil, in the end, that betrayed the woman. 
And these decrees were made in the beginning; 
and, therefore, our Saviour, took man's nature 
upon him, and suffered, for -the transgression of 
the fall. So he suffered the first to. fulfil the 
last, and bring in an elect number to be in him,, 
and he in them. But, when this is done, our 
Saviour telleth us in the Gospel, that when he 
comes in power, to fulfil the whole, he shall take 
out of his kingdom all that offend and do wick- 
edly, and give his kingdom to his friends and 
followers, as it was prepared for man at first, 
when man was created in innocence. But, then 
Satan's power will be destroyed, and then the 
fruit of Christ, and his only, will appear in 
man, which was his design before the foundation 
of the world was laid, to have a people, as Smith 
has described. But such a people hath not yet 
appeared, neither will they appear before the xxth 
of Revelations is fulfilled ; for the power of evil 
to be destroyed, and man to be created anew : 
then will the fruits of righteousness appear, 
and the Lord will pour out his Spirit upon all 
flesh that will remain upon the face of the earth. 
And now I shall give the communication given to 
me upon the QOth chapter to the end of the Re- 
velations. 

XXth chap. Rev. 1st verse: And I saw an 
angel come down from heaven, having the key 
of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his 
hand, &c. and Satan was bound for a thousand 
years. 



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The Answer of the Spirit: 

Now, let men mark, from this vision, and frfcm 
the words that I said, of overcoming the world, 
and of casting out the prince of this world. See 
in what manner the disciples bear record of my 
words, from what was shewn them afterwards. 
Now mark from the apostle : after Satan is bound, 
he saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the 
first earth was passed away, and the tabernacle 
of God was with man. Now mark, from these 
words, what is meant by the first earth being 
passed away : it does not mean the world as it 
stands, that all shall be passed away and have no 
'form, as it now is : I tell thee no ; that is not the 
meaning • for I created the world as I saw it was 
good. And so is the foundation of the earth 
placed, and all of its kind is good ; the fruit 
in its kind ; and every herb that groweth is good 
for man; and every grain of seed is good for 
man : therefore, it is not these things that will 
pass away, and be made anew, but it is the 
earthen vessels of men that will pass away from 
what they now are, and be made entirely anew in 
ME, that have been so tainted by the powers 
of darkness, by sin, and by the fall. Therefore, 
it is man that will be made anew when I come to 
bring in my kingdom, and destroy the powers of 
darkness, from working in man. What power has 
Satan to work in the earthly ground, to make it 
do evil ? But he hath a power to work in man, 
that was made of the earth, to make him do evil ; 
therefore, this is the first earth that must pass 
away, to be created anew, when I bring my 
tabernacle to dwell with men; to be their God, 
and they to be my people. Then will I wipe 
away all tears from their eyes ; and there shall be 
no more death. Now, from these words, the eyes 
#f men's understanding must be opened* to see 



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there is no death in heaven. Then how can 
man suppose this alludes to things in heaven ? 
Th£re are no tears in heaven to wipe from men's 
eyes"; there is no sorrow in heaven ; neither is 
there crying or pain there; because, they are 
passed from death unto life, to a world of joy, 
that can never end. But all these things are in 
the world, sorrow and sighing, pain and misery ; 
these are the things that shall pass away, and 
man shall be made anew; and none of these 
sorrows shall remain, when my kingdom is 
brought down to man. But I tell thee the mean- 
ing of my kingdom being brought down; it is 

MY SPIRIT that MUST BE BROUGHT DOWN UPON 

man. For mark deep the words how they are 
spoken : the seven angels, which had the seven 
vials, full of the seven last plagues. Now, from 
these words, you must all discern, what plagues 
are to come upon the earth, whenitcometh to the 
end. But know, they are the last. Then mark 
what followeth : I will shew thee the bride, the 
lamb's wife. And mark from the last chapter: 
the spirit and the bride saith come. Then ye 
must all discern it is my spirit coming down to 
be poured out upon the sons of men. This is 
the new Jerusalem that is coming down to 
make the earth as a heaven for man. And now 
I shall tell thee of the gates : the glory of the 
light that come from the Lord will be as a pre- 
cious stone unto man. And clear as the crystal 
I shall make my words and my ways before man- 
kind. And he that entered) into the gates must 
enter in by faith. For though it is written, the 
names of the twelve tribes of the children of 
Israel, as though the children of Israel were the 
only people that should enter in ; but the twelve 
tribes do not allude particularly to Jews or Gen- 
tiles'; or to any nation as a people ; but the tribes 
of Israel are the tribes of faith ; for know, it 



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is written, God is able of these stones to raise 
up children to Abraham. Then it must be of 
faith, like Abraham's, to be called the children of 
Abraham, and the children of Israel. But what 
nation could they be alluded to in my Gospel but 
the Jews ? for where was the nation or the peo- 
ple, that had the knowledge of me to walk by 
faith, as the Jews had ? Then, I could not place 
these things to any other nation that had not 
walked by faith. But as Abraham, Isaac, and 
Jacob, with others of the Jews, walked by faith ; 
so, fronj, their faith, they were called the true 
Israel of God; because they had faith, which 
no other nation had in their days. But, as it was 
said : in Isaac, all the families of the earth shall 
be blessed ; and he was a child of faith ; so, I 
tell thee, it is 'by faith men are called the Israel 
of God ; whether Jews or Gentiles, bond or free, 
male or female, they are all one, in Christ Jesus, : 
as the true Israel of God, that walk by faith, to 
believe in his word ; for he is not a Jew that is 
one outwardly, but he that is one inwardly, by 
faith. 

Here I have shewed thee the true Israel of God 
is from faith. 

And now I shall tell thee the meaning of the 
city being so beautiful as it were of jasper and 
pure gold, like unto clear glass. The pure gold 
is the pure word of God, that shall be made 
clear and manifest to all men. And as clear as 
ye can see through a glass that is clear as the 
crystal, so clear will ye see all my wprds verified 
and fulfilled, with joy unspeakable, and full of 
glory. The building of the walls, and the 
beauty of the city, that is said to come down to 
men below, is the beauty and fulfilment of my 
words and promises, much greater than it is 
described by the beauty of the city. But men 
are not to suppose that the cities will be made of 



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pure gold ; and yet, they will be filled with my 
pure word— Joys that never entered the hearts 
nor thought of men. But how could it be de- 
scribed to man the beauty of my buildings, when 
I build man anew to make him a fit temple for the 
living God? for then man will serve me in the 
beauty of holiness, to delight in me, and I in him. 
This is the meaning of the beauty of the city, 
being garnished with precious stones, when I 
am the sure corner stone for all men. Then 
they will see the beauty of my works in creation, 
in preservation, and in redemption ; all shining 
in its brightest lustre; like the garden of Eden at 
first, will this world become to man. Therefore, 
it is described in so beautiful a manner how the 
foundation is to be laid. And know how the 
foundation was laid at first, as a garden for beauty, 
with a tree of knowledge, and a tree of life. 
Now, when the evil is done away, and nothing 
remains but the knowledge of the good, then 
they will find the pure gold remaineth to fulfil 
my word. Therefore, it is written, the Lord 
God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple 
of it. And the city had no need of the sun, 
neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory 
of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light 
thereof. Now, do men suppose, from these words, 
there will be no sun to warm the earth, no sun 
to bring forth the fruits of the earth, no sun to 
lighten the earth ? I tell thee all these things will 
remain as they are ; the sun in the firmament, for 
the fruits of the earth, that every thing may 
give its increase. But the meaning of the word 
having no need of the sun, that the glory of God 
will lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof, 
hath a spiritual meaning^ not a temporal one. 
For now ye have need of teachers, ye have need 
of instructors, ye have need of guards, invisible^ 
ye have need of men that are visible, to be a 



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light to mankind ; yet, all this is but an imperfect 
light, to what man will receive, when the Lord 
is the light of his people; and the Lamb of 
God, that taketh away the sin of the world, is the 
light to all his people, and dwell with power 
in the midst of them. Then ye will have no need 
of these feeble lights that ye receive from the sons, 
of men, when the glory of the Lord is revealed, 
and the light of his countenance shines bright in 
every heart. Here I have shewed thee the 
meaning of these words, as to the shadow: but 
when men come to experience the substance, to 
see the Revelations revealed, experienced, and 
fulfilled; that all the nations which are saved 
will walk in the light of my countenance; then 
they will see they have no need of these feeble 
lights they now receive from the sons of men. 
Therefore, I tell thee, the visions of St. John, 
though never understood by mankind, are to 
fulfil the words of the prophets. They shall have 
no reason to say, know the Lord ; for they shall 
all know him, from the greatest to the least, If 
men discerned my Bible from the beginning to 
the ending — to weigh the prophets with my 
Gospel — and the ending with my apostles, then 
they would see in what a chain the whole is 
joined together, And now I shall answer thee 
from these words: the kings of the earth do 
bring their glory and honour into it. Then 
know what is meant by the kings of the earth, 
when they rule by my spirit. These are the 
kings that will bring honour and glory unto me. 
Now all these things must teach you they allude 
to my kingdom of peace below, where men will 
praise and honour my name for the great de- 
liverance I have brought to mankind- But know, 
it is said, there shall be no night there; but do 
not suppose, from these words, that the days 
and nights will not remain. The meaning of thes$ 



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words, being no night, is, that men will not walk 
In darkness as they now walk ; for, when they are 
made children of the light, they will always walk 
?n the light of my countenance, and not have 
their minds darkened as they now are. For there 
are no Christians, however they are enlightened 
by my Spirit, but sometimes walk in darkness; 
and this will continue while the powers of dark- 
ness remaineth, which bringeth on, as it were, a 
night to every true believing Christian; and this 
was upon the disciples, after they had been with 
me, and had seen all my miracles, and all my 
wondrous working, and had heard all my sayings, 
and were filled with the Holy Ghost, as I promised 
them : yet, they were still in darkness, that often- 
times came upon them ; for they told you they 
were waiting for a greater light, and they saw" 
but through a glass darkly ; yet their hope was to 
the end ; they knew man was to obtain, by the 
fulfilment of jiiy Gospel, a perfection of light, and 
knowledge, which they theirselves had not 
obtained ; therefore, the apostle tells you : What 
doth let, will let, till it be taken out of the way/ 
So, it is the powers of darkness that bringeth 
night" to man ; — that they seem often benighted, 
and their minds darkened, while the powers of 
darkness remaineth. But w T hen that power is 
destroyed, and the Son of Righteousness arise 
with healing in his wings, to heal the darkened 
state of man, and take every power of darkness 
from men, they will then find no more night come 
upon them. 

Here I have given the explanation of these 
chapters, as given to me, to shew what will be 
the ending, when the Lord hath fulfilled what 
were his decrees in the beginning. For this was 
the union in heaven, when the Lord said, let us 
make man in our own image, after our likeness; 
and let them fiave dominion over ail the earth, 



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kc. &c. and the Lord pronounced all to be 
go#d. Now, as the Lord is the alpha and 
omega — the beginning and the ending, the first 
and the last, — as the Lord pronounced all to be 
good, at first, so will he complete his words at 
last, and destroy the power of the devil, which 
is explained to me, from the words of the pro- 
phets, and the Gospel, as well as from the Re- 
velations, that Christ suffered his heel to be 
bruised for the transgression of man, in the fall, 
that divine justice might bruise the head of they 
serpent, who betrayed the woman. So the Lord 
will be just, when he condemneth ; just in cut- 
ting off the powers' of darkness, and fulfil the 
promise made in the fall. Satan was ready to 
work in the hearts of men, to crucify our Saviour, 
and fulfil the one; and now the time is at 
hand, that divine justice will fulfil the other; 
and in Christ will the law be fulfilled, — be com- 
pleted, and made honourable in him. And then 
will the Lord receive the congregation ; and all 
the horns of the wicked will be cut off ; but the 
horns of the righteous shall be exalted, and they 
shall flourish, like the grass of the earth. His 
name shall endure for ever — his name shall 
be continued as long as the sun, and men shall 
be blessed in him. All nations shall call him 
blessed — and blessed be his glorious name for 
ever. Let the whole earth be filled with his 
glory ! The glory of the Lord shall be re- 
vealed : — and all flesh shall see it together. All 
the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of 
our God. 

But where is the man can answer this is now 
done: or point out any age in which it was 
done: yet these promises stand on record, 
that such a time will come, which I am warned 
is nigh at hand. 

But, as men deny any revelation being given 



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from the Lord, since the days of the apostles, 
I must call their attention to the 6th chap. Rev, 
And I saw, when the lamb opened one of the 
seals, and I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder, 
one of the four beasts saying, come and see. 

From these words, I am answered : know, from 
the seals being in heaven to be opened, plainly shew- 
eth to mankind that the mystery of the Revela- 
tions were sealed up from the knowledge of man, 
before I come to open these mysteries by a Re- 
velation of my Spirit; therefore, they must know 
it could not be sealed up from man, if all know- 
ledge had been in man to know the meaning from 
themselves, for then nothing could be sealed from 
their knowledge to be after opened for men to 
come and see. But now let them discern at what 
time these seals are opened, which meaneth, these 
Scriptures that were sealed up from the know- 
ledge of men, that are now revealed and laid open 
to them from the beginning to the ending, that 
they may see what were m} 7 decrees, when I cre- 
ated man at first, and what are my decrees to 
accomplish all at the last Now, let them discern, 
at this time, how, from the spirit of prophecy, 
things were revealed to thee and laid open before 
them what 1 should do upon the earth. And let 
them discern that I first ordered thee to seal them 
up, thai every likeness John saw in heaven might 
take place here upon earth : for this is the mean 
ing of the Revelations. 

Now, come to the white horse; and I saw, 
and behold a white horse ; and he that sat on 
him had a bow; and a crown was given unto 
him; and he went forth conquering and to con- 
quer. Here, I am answered; as men boast 
of their own wisdom, to their own wisdom I must 
leave them for the present ; for though this 
* chapter, with many others in the Revelations, 
is explained to me, I am forbid to publish them 



m 

for the present. But, to shew haw the words of 
the prophets agree with the Revelations, I shall 
bring forward a communication given to me, 
June 27, 1806, upon the xli. and xlii. chap- 
ters of Isatah, which chapters men have 
erroneously placed, will be fulfilled by them xli. 
14. I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy 
redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Behold, I will 
make thee a new sharp threashing instrument* 
having teeth ; thou shall thresh the mountains, 
and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as 
chaff'; thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall 
carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter 
them; and thou shalt rejoice in the Lcvrd, and 
shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 

The answer of the Spirit, 

Men hath not observed that this chapter and 
the following must be placed together, but can- 
not be. fulfilled "by any mere man. I will give to 
Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings^ For 
I beheld, and there was no man even among 
them. Then, if there was no man, nor no coun- 
seller, that could answer a word, reason must 
tell them the meaning does not allude to man, 
that these great and wondrous works are alluded 
to. Mark the words before the promises made 
to my people, and the ends of the earth shall fear. 
But know the promise I have made unto Israel, 
my servant, and Jacob whom I have chosen, the 
seed of Abraham, my friend. These were the 
people to whom rny promise was made. But it 
is known to thee, whom I have called the child- 
ren of Israel, of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, 
that it is by faith, ye are made the children of 
Abraham, my friend. And now I have told thee 
who are my friends; then know my promise; 
through that, I shall take the:n from the ends of 
the earth. I am thy God, and will help thee. 



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I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand ; 
saying unto thee, fear not ; I will help thee saith 
the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of 
Israel. Then, if I help them I have told in what 
manner I will help them. But who is the servant 
or who is my chosen that I said I should make 
a new sharp threshing instrument, to thresh the 
mountains and beat them small? Can this power 
be in man to make the hills like chaff? Can man 
fan them or send the whirlwind feb scatter them ? 
Look to Moses, my servant, by whom I wrought 
great miracles, to shew the type of my Gospel; 
and yet, he had not power to do the things that 
^re here mentioned ; no, I tell thee, this does 
not allude to man, it alludes to your Redeemer, 
the Holy One of Israel, when I come to redeem 
my people. Then my followers need not fear 
that look for my coming ; and let them not be 
dismayed, for I shall help them, and I shall as- 
sist them ; for it is I the Lord, that shall thresh 
the mountains, and make the hills like chaff. 
For the whirlwind shall scatter my enemies. But 
they that trust in me shall rejoice in the Lord 
their God. For I will open rivers in high places, 
and fountains in the midst of the vallies. These 
are the promises I have made to my people, 
when I come to redeem them. And now I am 
come to shew them the things that are to come, 
that they may know the latter end of them ; how 
I shall scatter and destroy my enemies, how the 
wind shall carry them away when I bring in re- 
demption to the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and 
Jacob. But let no man vainly imagine, the 
meaning of Israel, Isaac, and Jacob, or the seed 
of Abraham, alludes to the Jews, fori have al- 
ready told thee, and I now tell thee again, the 
seed of Abraham is the seed of faith. There- 
fore, I said fear not, for I shall help thee; and 
I. have told thee in what manner I will help them. 



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Hut if they place it to man, it must be to men 
of war ; for that is one of the ways that I shewed 
thee in thy first visitation, I should destroy my 
enemies. And by my destroying angel, and the 
famine I should destroy them another way. 
Then, where is the man can boast this can be 
done by him ? And yet, I shall make instruments 
of the enemies, to destroy one the other; for the 
hearts of men are known to me. For, as the 
mockery of this nation is, so would be the 
mockery of all nations, if these things were to fly 
abroad, before the nations are brought low. 
Therefore it is written, I shall gather them to- 
gether in the valley of Jehosaphat, and plead 
with them there ; that meaneth, to bring the 
nations low, and then to plead with them, by the 
visitation of my spirit. For this is the meaning 
of the words. It is by man I shall plead with the 
nations, and shew them the truth of my visita- 
tion, because I have shewn them the things that 
are to come; and I have shewn them what shall 
happen, that they may know what the latter end 
will be of those who look unto him, that first 
brought good tidings to Jerusalem. Let them 
know, I shall come again to redeem it; for 
there is no man amongst them, neither is there a 
counseller that can answer a word, when I ask, 
why Jerusalem was destroyed ? why they were 
scattered, and carried away? Had my will been 
done by them, then they must abide in Jerusalem. 
Let them trace my Bible back, and discern what 
deliverances came to the Jews, time after time, 
when they had provoked rne to anger, to punish 
their transgressions. See how often have been 
their deliverance : but what deliverance have they 
had since they cried out, his blood be on us 
and our children ; and despised me that 
brought them good tidings? Now, from the Jews, 
you may see the blindness that is in mankind. 



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But I know thy pondering heart, and what thou 
sayest within : it is marvellous in thy eyes, the 
Jews are not jealous for themselves, to know there 
is some cause wherein they have offended the 
Lord. That in all ages back, after being pu- 
nished for their crimes, they have had wondrous 
deliverances ; but since they put me to death 
and clamoured hard for my blood ; they have had 
no deliverance, no prophet, no king, and no coun- 
try to call their own. This thou sayest, in thy 
heart, appears marvellous they do not discern it. 
To thy pondering thoughts I shall answer ; it 
is marvellous in this present age, when they hear 
of thy visitation, that, before any thing sprung 
forth, I told thee of it. When they see my visi- 
tation in the nations abroad, and surrounded with 
every difficulty at home ; seeing the truth going 
on, knowing all was foretold in my Bible. Is it 
not marvellous that unbelief should so strong 
abound in the learned men of your land? And 
yet, I tell thee, was the enemy to come in, and 
destroy your land, there are thousands in the 
land, that, were they to flee to another nation to 
save their lives, unbelief would abound the same. 
For unbelief blinds the eyes from seeing the 
truth, as much as blindness prevents a man from 
seeing the day-light. For, it was through unbe- 
lief, Satan gained the advantage over the woman 
in the fall; because, he made her believe what I 
said was false ; and, that I should not act ac- 
cording to my words. And, by the same arts, 
he -worked with the angels in heaven, to make 
them believe in the greatness of his power, and 
the happiness they would possess with him, and 
that their happiness could not be completed 
with me. So it is with unbelief, he works in the 
hearts of men. And, through unbelief, the ages 
hath been destroyed. And now it is come to the 
end, unbelief will destrov the nations the same, 



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For, till judgments cut them off, they will never 
believe ; neither will they wish to believe, or de- 
sire to be freed from the effects of sin and sor- 
row, till they are compassed round with every 
danger. Therefore, my Bible is written in this 
manner, that when your Redeemer cometh to 
redeem his people, that are looking and longing 
for his coming, fatal judgments must come upon 
the earth. And now is the time I shall fulfil the 
whole. Let them look to the words of the pro- 
phet; I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth 
good tidings. 

Therefore, all the ends of the earth must look 
unto me to be saved; if they will be saved. Then 
let them know the tidings of my Gospel: how I 
promised to come again, and deliver my people 
that trusted in me, and looked for my coming. 
This I taught them to pray for ; and this I taught 
them to believe, that I should come again, and 
visit my people, — and redeem them, — to give them 
the kingdom as it was prepared for man before 
the foundation of the world. I said, I come to 
seek and to save that which was lost, and, by the 
fall, man was lost to the happiness I created him 
for. But I shall restote him to what I created 
him for, and take out of my kingdom all that 
offend and do wickedly. This is the tidings of 
my Gospel, that the wise servant shall enter into 
the joy of his Lord ; and the wise virgins enter 
in with the bridegroom, when I come as the 
comforter, to comfort my people, to redeem them, 
and deliver them from every power of death, hell, 
and sin. This is the tidings of my Gospel : this 
is the tidings I brought to man, that I should do 
for them in the end. Then, who is the man 
that bringeth good tidings? In thy heart, thou 
answerest, the tidings of the Gospel promise re- 
demption ; and the words of the prophets I said 
I would fulfil Then, now let them discern the 



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chapters deep, and what I said of my enemies, 
I shall do in the end. Mark the parable of the 
Lord of the vineyard — what I said, he will do un- 
to them that destroyed the Servants, and the Son. 
Did I not say, he would miserably destroy these 
husbandmen, and give the vineyard to others r 
Then, now discern my parables with the chapter : 
fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel, 
I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, 
the Holy One of Israel. But, mark the destruc- 
tion that I said should follow upon my enemies, 
when I bring deliverance to my people. 

Here, I have shewn thee, from my Gospel, 
and the words of the prophet, how they are 
both joined together ; though they are not 
discerned by man ; neither is there a man, or a 
counsellor among them, that can answer a word 
to explain the chapter : for, it is not discerned, 
by Jews or Gentiles, how it joins with my Gos- 
pel, and speaks of the end, (see the beginning, 
xli. chap. 1.) Keep silence before me, O islands, 
and let the people renew their strength : let them 
come near, then let them speak : let us come near 
together to judgment, who raised up the righ- 
teous man from the east, &c. &c. 

Then, now I ask thee, who is the righteous 
man from the east, called him to his foot, gave 
the nations before him, made him ruler over 
kings, who is the ruler over kings ? Thou an- 
swerest, He that is the king of kings, and lord 
of lords, who made the heavens for my throne, 
and the earth for my footstool, who filleth the 
heavens with my majesty, and hath promised 
to fill the earth with my goodness, — but shall 
tread down my enemies in my fury, and destroy 
them in my anger; it is I, the Lord, shall ac- 
complish this. Then know, the just and righ- 
teous man (who is so called by man) was wound- 
ed for the transgression of man. Then mark 



what is said of him : he must be risen up, to be 
the ruler over all the kings of the earth, and call 
the nations all his own ; for this is my beloved 
Son, in whom I am well pleased. Now come to 
the following chapter xlii. Behold my servant, 
whom I uphold ; mine elect, in whom my soul 
delighteth ; I have put my Spirit upon him : he 
shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. 

Here, my son is called my servant ; then mar- 
vel not in the other, that he is called the righ- 
teous man, to be ruler over kings, and to destroy, 
with the sword, all his enemies. Here I have 
shewn thee, from these chapters, how the wisest 
men, in early days, when they began their re- 
marks from the prophets, did not deeply dis- 
cern all things : for, had they deeply discerned 
this chapter, they would have placed it with the 
other, and have known, there was no righteous 
man that I should make ruler over kings but my 
Son, in whom my soul delighteth ; for he was 
given for the transgression of man ; and it was 
him that brought the good tidings to the Gen- 
tiles. Then let them know, He must be risen up 
to have all power in his hands. Know what 
is written in the Psalms : The Lord said unto 
my Lord, set thou at my right-hand, till I make 
thy foes thy footstool. And know, it is written, 
he must put all things under him, vrhen he claims 
the kingdom his own : therefore, let no man 
ascribe to himself what belongeth not unto man ; 
neither let any man set himself up as a god in. 
power; but remember the words in my Gospel, 
when a man setteth himself up to the highest 
place in a feast, I said, there might come one 
more honourable than he, to take the place ; and 
he with shame was removed. There-is not a pa- 
rable, in my Gospel, but I meant to spiritualise 
in the end ; and this I am doing ; for, it is known 
tome, what Scriptures men apply to themselves 



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that belong to me; so that they destroy my 
Gospel, and make the fulfilment of the prophets 
to be in man, and not in me : but let them 
discern, how strong my visitation is to a woman, 
and not to a man, in the manner it hath been 
to thee; because, in the end, no man shall take 
to himself Scriptures that do not belong to man. 

But now I will tell thee what belongs to man, as 
I have told thee what alludes to me. The isles 
saw it and feared; the ends of the earth were 
afraid. Now this fear is coming on man, while 
my sword is going abroad Math destruction. The 
plague and famine is already felt by some ; and this 
will go on till the ends of the earth will fear. But 
when these things come to some, then the following 
will come to the others. They helped every one his 
neighbour; and every one said to his brother, be 
of good courage. Now I will tell thee why these 
words are so spoken, that when the ends of the 
earth should be afraid, every man should say to 
his brother, be of good courage ; because these 
brethren allude to believers, and they will be 
encouraged more and more as they see the day 
approaching ; then will come my promises strong 
to man, to tell them not to be afraid, for I will 
help them, and I will strengthen them. And 
they that war against them, and contend with 
them, shall be destroyed. For as I am the hope 
of my people, so will I be the help of my people. 

Therefore Isaid fear not, for I will help thee. But 
what hath man to fear if all power was in his hands? 
then they can have nothing to fear; but know, 
from the chapter, they are encouraged, by faith, 
to trust in the Lord for their help ; yet, there are 
times, that believers may fear; but I have pro- 
mised to dismiss their fears ; and make the 
wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land 
springs of water: which meaneth, a wondrous 
.deliverance, and a wondrous working, that I 



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shall do for my people in the end, vHiich is the 
meaning of the words, making the dry land springs 
of water. It would appear marvellous in your 
eyes to see a dry and barren land, where there 
was no water, to gush out as a spring of water 
all through : this may appear marvellous ; but 
much more marvellous is the meaning of the 
words, when I come to deliver my people, who 
are like a barren and thirsty ground, that wants 
the showers to water and refresh it: and perfectly 
so is the thirsty soul, that is longing for my com- 
ing : then he ahall be filled with rivers of living 
water, that meaneth of my word and my 
spirit filling him with joy, when the springs of 
living water arise within him. Here is the 
spiritual meaning of the words, and great will be 
the temporal meaning, when I bring deliverance 
to my people. For these are the things that 
allude to man ; planting in the wilderness the 
cedar and the myrtle tree, with the oil tree, and 
other trees, is to shew what blessings I shall 
plant for men ; and how this world, that is like a 
wilderness, shall be enriched with every blessing ; 
for the barren wilderness shall become as a fruitful 
field. These are the blessings that are in store 
for man ; these are the promises that are made to 
man. But the accomplishment, and fulfilment, 
must be in me, the Living Lord to do it for them. 
Now, mark the following chapter, what is said 
of my servant : a bruised reed shall he not break, 
and the smoaking flax shall he not quench : he 
shall bring forth judgment unto truth ; he shall 
not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set 
judgment in the earth: and the isles. 'shall wait 
for his law. Now, from this chapter, it is men- 
tioned my servant,; in the other, the righteous 
man, that these things are to be done by; then 
know, these promises and their fulfilment must be 
accomplished by the Son of God, as it is written 



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by the psalmist. Here the Son is called the 
servant, that shall set judgment in the earth, and 
the isles shall wait for his law. I, the Lord have 
called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine 
hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a 
covenant of the people, for a light to the Gentiles. 
Now, if men discern these words, in what man- 
ner they are spoken, they are spoken like the 
other, of the righteous man that should rule over 
kings ; and, like him, that should thresh the 
mountains . where is the difference in the manner 
it is spoken ? So, if men place one to a man, they 
may place the other likewise. But now I will 
tell thee why it is called my servant ; because, as 
a servant came the Son of God amongst man- 
kind : and know, it is written, lo ! I come to do 
thy will, O God. Then, I came as a servant ; 
and what honour had I more than a servant from 
the unbelieving world? and what more honour 
do I now receive from the Jews ? do they not 
look upon me as a mere man, a servant, of the 
devil, and not of the Lord? perfectly like a ser- 
vant I was amongst mankind, and was subject 
to man as a servant is subject to a master ; I 
submitted to all their abuses, their ridicule, and 
their laws ; I submitted unto death, and was 
judged by them as a servant of the devil. But, 
if they had discerned the words of the prophet, 
they would have discerned I was a servant of 
the Lord ; and have been convinced that theses 
prophecies were never spoken of a mere man, that 
should be a covenant of the people, and a light 
to the Gentiles ; to open the blind eyes ; to bring 
the prisoners from the prison. Weigh it with 
my Gospel, and discern the past ; what has 
been fulfilled, and I will tell thee what is to be 
fulfilled. The former things are come to pass, 
and new things do I declare ; before they spring 
forth I tell you of them. Then, if former thing" 

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are come to pass, know, the visitation of my 
spirit must come to warn men of my coming: 
for these are the new things, that I declare 
unto you: and before they spring forth, I have 
told you of them. Now, mark what new things 
I have declared of the new heavens and a new 
earth, that I have said, shall be established for 
man. i\nd let them discern what I told thee 
should take place, before it sprung forth; theu 
let them know it is the visitation of my spirit 
that warned thee of these things before they 
sprung forth. But now discern farther : The 
Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir 
up jealousy like a man of war ; he shall cry, yea, 
roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. I 
have long time holden my peace ; I have been 
still, and refrained myself; now wilt I cry like a 
travailing woman ; I will destroy and devour at 
once. 

Now, from these words, you must discern that 
I shall not fail till I have set judgment in the 
earth; then, if I set judgment in the ^arth, I 
must destroy my enemies, and your adversary. 
For though I have held my peace, yet will I not 
always keep silence, neither will I refrain myself; 
I will cry like a travailing woman ; I will destroy 
and devour at once. Here are the prophecies that 
I said I should fulfil ; and these are the prophe- 
cies that I shall fulfil, when I come to make an end, 
to make waste mountains, and dry up their 
herbs : to bring the blind by a way they know 
not, and make darkness light before them. 
These things will I do, and not forsake them. 
Now discern from these two chapters, how bles- 
sings and judgments are mixed together, when I 
come to deliver my people that are looking for 
me, to establish judgment in the earth ; then, 
know, there must be different minds in the people 
and different hearts, or these different prophecies 



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would not stand together, the one, for man's de- 
struction, and the other, for man's redemption. 

Thus far I have given the explanation of these 
two chapters, as they are given to me. The re- 
mainder I shall not publish for the present. 

The Jews of this present day have placed these 
chapters to allude to Bonaparte, without discern- 
ing he has never been a light to the Gentiles; 
neither, did he bring good tidings to Jerusalem. 
And it is impossible for these chapters to be ful- 
filled, by any mere man. Now I shall give th.e 
explanation given to me on the li, chapter of 
Isaiah, part of 6th and 7th verses. My salvation 
shall be for ever on the people in whose hearts 
my law is. 

The answer of the Spirit. 

Ye know not the meaning of the words, the 
heavens shall vanish away like smoke ; a mystery, 
men do not understand, but think they allude to 
the end ; therefore, they judge they have no- 
thing to do with these Scriptures ; but think it 
will go well with the righteous, and they shall be 
taken to glory. But it will go ill with the wicked, 
and they will go to misery. This men think will- 
continue until I come to judge the world, and 
make a final end of the whole. Therefore, I tell 
thee, there are thousands of Christians, that think 
they have nothing to do with searching the Scrip- 
tures, to know whether these things are true or 
false; all they think their duty is being like the 
Laodoceans, neither hot nor cold, but to be luke- 
warm : and like the Jews of old, when I came 
in the body, thought it right to go on as they 
went before, in the steps of their forefathers; and 
so they thought to gain heaven thereby. But if 
I came to make a change amongst them, and 
bring them to a clearer knowledge of God, ought 
they not to come to that knowledge ? In thy 



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heart, thou answerest; yes. Then, now I am 
come in the Spirit, to give a clearer light to 
mankind of what my coming was for ; and that 
I come to establish my kingdom, that I died for; 
then is it not the duty of those that believe my 
Gospel, to search the Scriptures, as I commanded 
them, and see whether these things are true or 
not, as it was the duty of the Jews to search di- 
ligently what was written by the Prophets, con- 
cerning me : and, from the miracles I wrought 
amongst them, to see and believe, as my desciples 
did ? This thou sayest in thy heart, they ought; 
to have done; but they trusted to their own 
w T isdom, to their own righteousness, to carry 
them to heaven. But how did the heavens vanish 
away like a smoke to them ? Where is the religion 
in which they trusted ? Where is the goodness in 
whom they boasted? Did not all vanish away 
like smoke, and they are become old, like a 
garment, and have died away in their self con- 
fidence and their self righteousness? Now, if all 
these things befel them for examples, let men 
take care they do not fall into the like errors, 
lest their self confidence, self dependence, and 
self righteousness, they have trusted to, vanish 
awav in the end, like the former. For I now tell 
thee, and all mankind, he that mocketh my visi- 
tation, when I come in the spirit, mocketh me; 
and he that is regardless, like the Jews of old ; 
like the Jews of old, they have all to fear. Now 
I shall come to reason with man. Where is that 
man upon earth, that can bring forward his 
Bible to prove thy visitation is not from me, when 
he hath weighed the whole together? Now, if 
this cannot be done by man, how will they ap- 
pear when they find thy visitation to be from the 
Lord, when they have mocked my warnings, 
laughed at my threatenings, and despised my in- 
vitation? And should I come unto man in this 



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state, how would the heaven they have built upoix 
vanish away like smoke from them, as it did 
from the Jews, when they saw the smoke of my 
anger appear to them. But do men imagine, be- 
cause it is written, the heavens shall be on fire, 
and the firmament shall melt with fervent heat, 
and all shall pass away like a scroll ; do they 
think the heavens will be burnt up, and consumed 
to ashes as a house is ■? I tell thee, no. It is the 
fire of mine anger, that will be kindled, and the 
heat of my fury will appear, when I come to 
destroy the wicked from off the earth ; the evil 
power that have reigned so long. Then, they 
will see the smoke of my fury appear. Here I 
have shown thee both ways, that the heavens 
will pass away like a smoke, when I come to 
bring in redemption to those people in whose 
hearts my law is. So, they have nothing to fear 
from the reproach of men, neither be afraid of 
their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up: 
and my righteousness shall be for ever and ever, 
and my salvation, from generation to generation. 
These are the promises to the redeemed of the 
Lord, when I come to redeem them, with ever* 
lasting joy upon their heads: they sh 11 obtain 
joy, and gladness ; sorrow, and mourning, shall 
flee away. And these are my promises, made 
by my Prophets; and these are the promises, I 
ihall fulfil. Therefore, it is written, in the 
following chapter : awake, put on thy strength, 
O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jeru- 
salem, the holy city : for, henceforth, there shall 
no more come into thee the uncircumcised and 
the unclean. Break forth into joy, sing together, 
ye waste places of Jerusalem : for the Lord hath 
comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. 
The Lord hath made bare his holy arm, in the 
eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth 
shall see the salvation of our God. 

Now stand before me, ye sons of men, and 



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tell me when these things were clones Are not 
the uneireumcised, and the unclean, still in the 
waste places round about Jerusalem? Then, now, 
I ask, if I am God, like man to lie, or the son of 
man to be wavering, are not my words yea and 
amen? What I have said, I will fulfil. And, 
now, I tell thee, the nations shall be sprinkled, 
till they are cleansed. For now will I cleanse the 
blood, that I have not cleansed ; and bring my 
spirit down upon man: and they shall put on my 
beautiful garments. 

These are a part of the explanation of the Bible, 
Which I promised should be continued. At a 
future day, I shall publish more. 

Now, let men discern from these communica- 
tions, given upon the Revelations and the Pro- 
phets, how the whole is joined together in one 
likeness, to bring redemption to man in the end. 
But, if men deny the Gospel, then, they do away 
the sense of the Prophets, that they cannot be 
understood, who, the Prophet prophecied of, 
that should be born for us, to be the prince of 
peace, and have the government upon his 
shoulders, and whom David speaks of through 
the Psalms : to have the heathens for his- inherit- 
ance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his 
possession. These things I was ordered to I: ring 
forward, to shew the errors in the Unitanviis and 
the Calvanists. 

But, as Mr. Smith hath brought forward, in his second book, 
that Mr. Tanner's children both affirm the false assertion, made 
in his first book, concerning my going to Mr. Tanner, and that 
his son and daughter both say their father told them, u that I cur- 
ried writings to him, which he refused to take, and that he told 
me it was a delusion/' 

Now, if their assertions be true, they have proved their father 
was a liar, as I never carried any writings to him. And his con- 
versation to me was the reverse of what his children have asserted, 
as he then told me, he believed my visitation come from the 
Lord, and desired me to bring him the writings; but 1 told him 
1 could not, qs they uere not in my possession, which is known to 



47 

njy friends in Exeter. The conversation which took place be- 
tween Mr. Tanner and me is published in my answer to Smith, 
and I should not have brought it forward again, but, I was 
answered. 

As Tanner's children hath made their father a 
liar, from what they assert concerning thee, per- 
fectly so have these preachers of election made 
me and my Bible in the way they have placed it, 
and let them discern from the words of the Pro- 
phets that I ordered thee to bring forward, and 
the conditions where all stand how could I mean 
what I said, if their judgment be true? Here they 
have made me, as Tanner's children hath made 
their father, to say to my Prophets what I never- 
meant, Avhen I promised to receive the returning 
sinners. So they make my Bible false, and all 
that were spoken by the mouth of the Prophets, 
which I said in my Gospel I came to fulfil, and 
that a word should not fall to the ground all all 
was fulfilled. They must deny the words of the 
Prophets, if they deny my mercies, in being 
ready to save to the utmost all them that repent, 
and turn unto me, because I have promised to 
turn unto them ; for, I came to seek and to save 
that which was lost ; and whosoever come unto 
me I will in no ways cast out. But, if all was 
elected from the foundation of the world, who 
should be saved and who should be lost, and no 
conditions were fixed for man, then, I died in 
vain: and where is the merit of my dying 
blood ? Here, I tell thee, from Tanner's children 
stand a deep type of the Calvanists, as it is known 
to thee they have made their father a liar. / nd 
I tell thee these preachers have made my Pro* A 
the same, and do judge me another suc'^ 
have made of him. But thou sayest 
thou canst not tell which is the Xvc 
the children ; and perfectly so, I 
are the minds of many confused b; 
not knowing w T hich is true — the 
by the mouth of the Prophets, i BffuMil 



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these preachers of election set forth. And, thctc- 
fore, thou knowest many hath told thee they be- 
came Atheists and Deists; not to believe the 
Bible at all, from the doctrine they heard preached 
by them. Therefore, I have ordered thee to re- 
prove their errors and bring forward iny Bible, 
as a witness against them. But, now I tell thee, 
if man will lie, let them know I am not a man to 
lie, or the son of man to be wavering. As my 
promises stand, I shall fulfil them. 

As some of my believers hath taken up Mr. Smith's first hook, 
sirid have written to me of their design to reprove him, I wish to 
inform them he is not a man worthy of a reproof, neither is my 
answer in this book for him, nor are the communications for 
him; but the answer is for the public, to shew them the errors 
pf this doctrine. 

My friend observes, that, as Mr. Smith contends that all was 
finished when Christ died, he wishes to ask him a few questions, 
which I shall insert from his ietter. 

. When did Christ see the travail of his soul and were satisfied r. 
Isaiah liii. 8. When did he turn to the people a pure language, 
that they served him with one consent ? Zep. iii. .9. When did 
-all the ends of the earth see the salvation of God ? Isaiah lii. 
When did every knee bow and every tongue swear to serve the 
Lord? Isaiah xlv. When did he pour out his spirit upon all 
iiesh ? Joel ii. When did men beat their swords into plowshares 
and their spears into prunning hooks never to learn war any more ? 
Mi cab. iv. 

When did Christ draw all men after him ? John xii. When 
old he destroy the works of the devil ? John iii. When was his 
will done on earth as it is in heaven,. Matt. vi. The above are 
a few of the questions he proposed for Mr. Smith to answer. 

The contents of this book, taken from Joanna Southcott's 
mouth, by me, 

Ann Underwood. 
'--Vimess, Jane Townley. 

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